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Question 1 From source A, we learn many things about the murders of Tabram and Nicholls, it starts by saying they have ‘startled’ London, the public would not have been expecting these murders conducted with such ‘extraordinary violence.’ The two victims are also said to have been the ‘poorest of the poor’ and the murder is said to have had no adequate motive, although the fact the killer had no motive is an assumption made by the newspaper. The Observer also states that an ‘excess of effort’ went into the murders. This is also not the first article written about the murders as it begins with ‘have so startled London.’ This implies the newspaper has already written an article on it before; the newspaper refers (rather subjectively) to the Ripper as a demented being, but provides no real information about the circumstances of the murder, a profile of the killer or any other useful information, just objective opinions on the murders Question 2 Sources A, B and C are all very different accounts of the murders, source A is an account in a newspaper with no detail about what happened, source B is a coroners report and provides information about how the victim has been murdered and a small insight into the way